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Anand Agricultural University, Anand

Anand Agricultural University (AAU) was established in 2004 at Anand with the support of the Government of Gujarat, Act No.(Guj 5 of 2004) dated April 29, 2004. Caved out of the erstwhile Gujarat Agricultural University (GAU), the dream institution of Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel and Dr. K. M. Munshi, the AAU was set up to provide support to the farming community in three facets namely education, research and extension activities in Agriculture, Horticulture Engineering, product Processing and Home Science. At present there seven Colleges, seventeen Research Centers and six Extension Education Institute working in nine districts of Gujarat namely Ahmedabad, Anand, Dahod, Kheda, Panchmahal, Vadodara, Mahisagar, Botad and Chhotaudepur AAU's activities have expanded to span newer commodity sectors such as soil health card, bio-diesel, medicinal plants apart from the mandatory ones like rice, maize, tobacco, vegetable crops, fruit crops, forage crops, animal breeding, nutrition and dairy products etc. the core of AAU's operating philosophy however, continues to create the partnership between the rural people and committed academic as the basic for sustainable rural development. In pursuing its various programmes AAU's overall mission is to promote sustainable growth and economic independence in rural society. AAU aims to do this through education, research and extension education. Thus, AAU works towards the empowerment of the farmers.

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    IMPACT OF DIFFERENT DRYING CONDITION ON PHYSIO-BIOCHEMICAL, QUALITY AND NUTRIENTS CONTENT OF JIVANTI (LEPTADENIA RETICULATA (RETZ.) WIGHT & ARN.)
    (DEPARTMENT OF PLANT PHYSIOLOGY B. A. COLLEGE OF AGRICULTURE ANAND AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY ANAND, 2021) Krishna Patel; Dr. A. S. Thounaojam
    Leptadenia reticulata is very valuable medicinal plants popularly known as Jivanti belonging to family Asclepiadaceae. It is specially known for its stimulant and restorative properties in Ayurveda and it also important constituents of many well reputed ayurvedic formulations. Its principal constituents are leptadenol, leptidin, b-sitosterol, b-amyrin acetate. It possesses the appetizer, aphrodiac, anticancerous and antibacterial properties.
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    INFLUENCE OF MICRONUTRIENTS AND PLANT GROWTH REGULATOR ON MORPHO PHYSIOLOGICAL, NUTRACEUTICAL QUALITY AND YIELD OF ONION (Allium cepa L.) CV. GAWO-2
    (DEPARTMENT OF PLANT PHYSIOLOGY B.A. COLLEGE OF AGRICULTURE ANAND AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY ANAND, 2021) Faldu Tarang Ashokbhai; Dr. Ashwin Trivedi
    Onion (Allium cepa L.) is one of the most important commercial vegetable crops belongs to Alliceae family being grown all over the country. It is widely used as a cooked vegetable in soups, mix vegetable and flavouring agent in many additional dishes. The continuous demand of onion within country and for the export has made it essential to supply onions round the year, either from fresh harvest or from stocks. Hence immediate attention needs to be given to improve the productivity, uniformity in size, shape, colour and export qualities of onion.
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    INFLUENCE OF PHYTOHORMONES ON MORPHOPHYSIOLOGICAL GROWTH, YIELD AND QUALITY OF KALMEGH (Andrographis paniculata Nees)
    (DEPARTMENT OF PLANT PHYSIOLOGY B. A. COLLEGE OF AGRICULTURE ANAND AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY ANAND, 2020) Shekhada Raxit Rameshbhai; Dr. Sunil J. Macwan
    Andrographis paniculata Nees is a medicinal plant known as “king of bitter”. It has been used for centuries in Asia for its high value compound used in the treatment of the various diseases. The kalmegh is now cultivated and due to its importance as medicinally is growing up. Plant growth regulators are known to overcome the limiting factors of plant growth and influence the vegetative and reproductive growth. It helps to improve growth yield and quality of a crop. So to know the potential of plant growth regulators the study was conducted to find out the effect of phytohormones on morphophysiological growth, yield and quality of kalmegh at Department of Plant Physiology, B. A. College of Agriculture, Anand agricultural University, Anand during Kharif, 2019-20.